The Goat Pen

Second Amendment at work.......

It is not about the legal gun owner it is how guns are just given out on street corners to just anyone. That is the narrative that gets clicks.

According to Gallup (whom Tick once called "the first and still the best")...

BREAKING:

Obama, Trump Tie as Most Admired Man in 2019

https://news.gallup.com/poll/273125/oba ... -2019.aspx

Yeah, 3 years after he left office, Obama is still tied for most admired man. When Trump is 3 years out of office, he'll be in prison. But I'm sure he'll still be the most popular man in Prof's life, ahead of Jesus...

Jesus was gay

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:30 pm Yeah, 3 years after he left office, Obama is still tied for most admired man. When Trump is 3 years out of office, he'll be in prison. But I'm sure he'll still be the most popular man in Prof's life, ahead of Jesus...

Yup, just like everyone said Dubya would be.

How's that working out?

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:30 pm When Trump is 3 years out of office, he'll be in prison.

By what logical, rational, empirical evidence do you make that prediction? Or is it based on your feelings?

Tick and Rat made dozens of similar feelings-based predictions about Trump being gone before now. Sorta like Al Gore’s feelings based prediction that the polar ice caps would be melted by now (“It’’s the SCIENCE!”)

Their feelings-based predictions didn’t work out for them either. And you all consider yourselves the enlightened, intelligent, sophisticated, smart ones.

My prediction still stands ya dickhead

BigRedMan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:49 am

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:30 pm Yeah, 3 years after he left office, Obama is still tied for most admired man. When Trump is 3 years out of office, he'll be in prison. But I'm sure he'll still be the most popular man in Prof's life, ahead of Jesus...

Yup, just like everyone said Dubya would be.

How's that working out?

Don't recall anybody saying W would be in prison. For what??

"And you all consider yourselves the enlightened, intelligent, sophisticated, smart ones."

Well, compared to you, yeah. Duh...

You just can’t make this stuff up. The NYT calls the attackers of the US Embassy (which were Iranian proxies), “mourners.”



I guess it’s an improvement over calling them “spontaneous protesters outraged by a YouTube video.”

they are mourning the death of the second most powerful man in Iraq who just happens to be an Iranian General now

this is going to escalate which is not good but damn

they dared Trump, said the US couldn't do anything and within 24 hours we take out their most important guy in Iraq.


lets just remind Iran who they are fucking with

re-election year? check
guy who has to constantly be told that he cannot use nukes for retaliation? check
president badly in need of distraction from domestic issues? check
most powerful man in the nation who displays his use of power on social media like an old woman posts cat pictures? check

so its clear Trump does not subscribe to lex talionis, but instead is more of the mafia - we will kill your mother, your mothers mother and then we will kill all her friends.


Despite all of Suleimani’s rough work, his image among Iran’s faithful is that of an irreproachable war hero—a decorated veteran of the Iran-Iraq War, in which he became a division commander while still in his twenties. In public, he is almost theatrically modest. During a recent appearance, he described himself as “the smallest soldier,” and, according to the Iranian press, rebuffed members of the audience who tried to kiss his hand. His power comes mostly from his close relationship with Khamenei, who provides the guiding vision for Iranian society. The Supreme Leader, who usually reserves his highest praise for fallen soldiers, has referred to Suleimani as “a living martyr of the revolution.” Suleimani is a hard-line supporter of Iran’s authoritarian system. In July, 1999, at the height of student protests, he signed, with other Revolutionary Guard commanders, a letter warning the reformist President Mohammad Khatami that if he didn’t put down the revolt the military would—perhaps deposing Khatami in the process. “Our patience has run out,” the generals wrote. The police crushed the demonstrators, as they did again, a decade later.

Iran’s government is intensely fractious, and there are many figures around Khamenei who help shape foreign policy, including Revolutionary Guard commanders, senior clerics, and Foreign Ministry officials. But Suleimani has been given a remarkably free hand in implementing Khamenei’s vision. “He has ties to every corner of the system,” Meir Dagan, the former head of Mossad, told me. “He is what I call politically clever. He has a relationship with everyone.” Officials describe him as a believer in Islam and in the revolution; while many senior figures in the Revolutionary Guard have grown wealthy through the Guard’s control over key Iranian industries, Suleimani has been endowed with a personal fortune by the Supreme Leader. “He’s well taken care of,” Maguire said.

hedge wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:13 am

BigRedMan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:49 am

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:30 pm Yeah, 3 years after he left office, Obama is still tied for most admired man. When Trump is 3 years out of office, he'll be in prison. But I'm sure he'll still be the most popular man in Prof's life, ahead of Jesus...

Yup, just like everyone said Dubya would be.

How's that working out?

Don't recall anybody saying W would be in prison. For what??

Are you serious? There are still people out there wanting Dubya and Dick put on trial for war crimes.

We killed an Iranian? I gotta stop smoking weed

It is emotionally satisfying to send Suleiman to his 72 virgins in paradise.

But in the Middle East, the law of unintended consequences is a constant. Trump may think picking a fight with Iran is good for his re-election. But other than an economic downturn, getting us back into a shooting war could upend his re-election.

I think they're more worried about us taking out their refineries, which we could easily do...

We should just say that Putin ordered Soleimani killed

No doubt many of you liberals on this site remember back when Obummer let Iran embarrass the United States by taking US sailors hostage and then sent $180 billion to these jerks. I hope you girls remember this November when Trump refused to let Iran dictate the terms of engagement and didn't send one penny in doing so. #MAGA!

I wonder what Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tliab will wear to Soleimani's funeral.

Anyone else find it strange that these open border left wing lunatics are all of a sudden concerned about the safety of American citizens?